Amusement-vehicle.



P. AUGER.

- AMUSEMENT VEHICLE.

APPLICATION 211.21) AUG. 23, 1911.

Patented Jan. 9, 1912.

F10! m/l WITNESSES: 1N VEN TOR,

A TToRMEY.

UNITED STAIMEKT OFFICE.

. PHILIBERT AUGER, OF EASTHAMP'I'ON, MASSACHUSETTS.

AMUSEMENT-VEHICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. I 7 Application filed August 23, 1911 Serial Nol 645,620.

Patented Jan. 9, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIBERT 'AUGER, a

citizen of the United States of America, and

resident of Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts,"

have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Amusement-Vehicles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to amusement vehicles designed principally for use by children; and the same comprises a frame or platform mountedon a air of rear wheels and a central front steering wheel to which an upstanding steering and'steadying handle is connected, a pairof pedals on which a person may stand and operate, by an alternated treading action, the gearing individually provided in connection witheach of the rear traction wheels.

By use of these vehicles ohildren may enjoy themselves on roller coasts, halls, parks and smooth pavements, either alone .or in competition. v

The invention is described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and is set i forth in the claims.

In the drawings :.Figure 1 is a plan view of the vehicle; Fig. 2 is a central sectional view as taken on line 2-2,-Fig.-1; Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the vehicle.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

Inthe drawlngs, A represents the frame, the greater portion of which is comprised in a platform win a forward central part of which is the fork Bhaving the "steering wheel C mounted therein and having an upwardly projecting stem 1) which is swiveled through and extended; above the forward portion of the platform and provided with a limiting stop d at its rear upper part.

Such upper part of the stem is made b1fur-.

cated for the pivotal connection therein of an operating T shaped handle D. This handle is adapted to be normally upwardly and rearwardly inclined, as shown in Fig. 2, and to have its inclination limited by the said stop d so as to always be approximately in position to be grasped by the rider.

The frame comprises'the pairs of hangers f f at its rear portion in which are journaled separate horizontal transverse shafts G, G, in alinement, which shafts have, each, one of the traction wheels H thereon, and also each a gear wheel h afiixed thereon; and

cured to the forward of and parallel with the traction wheels shafts G Gare countershafts J J suitably journaled in the hangers, and having eaclr a gear wheel j which is in mesh with the adjacent gear wheel 72. on the traction wheel shaft. There is; moreover, af-

fixed on each countershaft J a ratchet wheel 1 K made with coarse teeth; and on the top of, the platform a pair of pedals L, L, are

hinged at their forward ends and have pivotally connected thereto at their rear end portions the depending pawls M which extend through suitable apertures k therefor in the platform and coact with the ratchet wheels.

m represents springs for returning the pedals to their normal upper positions after bein foot depressed; and in order that the peda s may not be thrown upwardly beyond proper limits so that thejpawls would become disengaged from the ratchet wheels,

chains or like flexible connections 71. are seplatformand to the pedals as indicated in' Fig. 2.

It will be noted in Fig. 1 that there is space on the platform outside of the pedals on which a rson 'may stand when not standing on elther or both of the pedals.

For thepropulsion of the vehicle a person will stand on the" pedals and with the weight first on oneand then on the other will alternately operate them to give correspondingly alternated impulses through the pawl and ratchet actuated gearing to the traction wheels; and when desiring to check the speed, the'rider may, through the steering handle D, turn the steering wheel at. right angles to the course of travel, andwhen coasting the rider may have standing room on the platform oppositely outside of the pedals.

When thedevice is in disuse, for compact stowage, the fork and steering handle may rate transverse shafts in alinement at the rear portion, of the platform havmg each a traction wheel and a gear wheel afiixed rate transverse shafts in alinement at the rear portion of the platform havin traction wheels and gear wheels aflixed ereon,

a pair of countershafts having each a gear wheel in mesh with the gear wheel'on the traction wheel shaft and a ratchet wheel, a pair of hinged pedals on the to of the latform, pawls connected with an de endmg from said pedals'and engaging wit the ratchet wheels, s rings for elevating the pedals, and flexib e connections secured to the platform and to the pedals for limiting the upward swinging movements of the lat- Signed by me at Springfield, Mass., in

.presence of two subscrlbing witnesses.

PHILIBERT AUGER.

Witnesses:

WM. S. B'EnLows, G. R. Dawson. 

